Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-07-15
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went AS missionary to the dark conti-
nent last year has been killed and eaten
by. those he was expecting to convert
Instead of his converting them, they
converted him into food. This is an
other of those affairs that bring sorrow
10 a large circle of friends, and there Is
no way ofgetting even with the heath
an. The aged man went to Africa to
10 good and he is a mangled corpse for
his pains. When missionary dies
natural death in Africa, and receives
Christian burial there where his work
was done, there is some consolation for
MS friends, and the good people who
ook up a collection to send him there,
IS they can erect monument 10 his
memory, over the spot where his
remains lie. but when he is eaten by
hundred bowling savages, and his re-
mains are separated into millions OF
fragments, and chewed SO there is
Ino semblance of man left, 1t Is
indeed horrible to contemplate. lie
$ simply wiped out of existence. If
friends desire to bring his body home
for burial, it is impossible, because it
would be necessary to corral whole
ribe of cannibals, bring them here
and kill them, and bury them, in or
Ter to know that the missionary was
properly buried. The incident re-
minds one of the story of a young man
who was sent to India, from New
York. in charge of an uncle, to grow
up with the country. After Il while
The father of the boy received tele-
gram from the uncle stating that
George was dead, and the body had
been shipped home. The father, IN
time, received coffin by freight, and
On opening it to take Il last look at
his son, found instead the body of a
huge oyal-bengal tiger. The father
elegraphed to the boys uncle, telling
him there must be some mistake about
George being dead, as the coffin CON
lained the remains of tiger, instead
Of George. The uncle telegraphed
back There is no mistake. George
IS inside the tiger" 1t seems
George had been killed and eaten by a
tiger and tho loving uncle had felt
that the parents would want to bury
George properly, and so sent him home
N the original package. This method
Of returning remains from India,
where the victim is inside one particu-
lar tiger, can be successful, but where
4 man is inside a hundred savages who
are running at large, there is no way to
collect the remains. This sad occurrence
will set men to thinking about some
method of protecting missionaries from
the cannibals. 1t has been thought by
some that the sending of women as
missionaries to cannibal countries
would have "A softening effect upon the
heathen, but statistics show that such
$ not the case. The cannibals are said
TO oloat over the arrival of female mis-
sionaries, and when they get chance
/. 10 eat them, they are so anxious that
hev will eat them raw, so the sendl ng
of women to these countries has near
Y ceased. The policy lately has been
10 send tough old ministers, with faces
hat have been exposed to the sun and
weather, and who do not look at all
} eatable, but that does not work, as the
| eannibals will cat anything. The Sun
, advocated Il new departure few years
: AGO, which was tried with good effect,
land that was the sending OF men who
rad lost limbs, and who were using
' cork legs and arms. Only one mar
0 was sent and he went more to play
| Iioke on the cannibals than anything
3lse As missionary he was not 1
D success, but he paralyzed the cannibals.
I It seems he allowed himself to be taker
1y the cannibals and they prepared fol-
feast. The man had lost his left arm
, and both legs in railroad accident, ane
he railroad company had generously
j. provided him with two cork legs and q
D cork arm. In fact he was q ''corker y
: The programme designed by those whit
. sent the cork man to Africa was for him
!, 10 fall right in with the scheme of thu
+ he cannibals, and seem to.enjoy it. H'
. was man who enjoyed joke as wei
2 as ANYBODY and when the cannibals hat
d AIKEN him to the place where.they were
e going to have their picnic, and max
heir chowder of missionary, and the,
: 1ad got pretty drunk, and were read
@ o prepare to boil him, they wer'
# struck with his polteness, when HI
|
moved his left arm and dropped it int
/ he kettle. They looked at him will
2 ,ston shment. Then he unbuckled hi
II egs, and after removing the shoes h
q lropped them into the kettle, and sa
Iown under tree TO watch the pro
Y ,eedngs. His idea was that the.
n would conclude that missionary whit
a would freely surrender three-fourth
8 If his body for the stew, the best part
l. ,eallv, for eating, was no slouch am
d hat they would spare his life
:. Though cannibals, with all that tn
= lame implies. they were no hogs
md they held a consultation, and afte
,alking the affair over, the boss can
7ibal approached the missionary an
h old him in few well chosen remarks
: hat they appreciated his high-tone
a aud gentelmanly conduct, so dlfieren
IS from that of most missionaries the
a had previously done business with
:, and begged him not to take of an
r. more of himself, but to consider wha
r ,emained of him their guest, and re
,e main and take lunch with them. In
,e cork missionary appeared much toucf
a I'd bv the request, and said, while b
r was not one of them, he and they ha
ar many interests in common. He said
,f .hev wanted any more of him to cool
l. Ill they had to do was to mention
ot and he would pull off his other arm, {
he would get right into the kettle hin